war-dances

The plantation hands were dancing war-dances around the base of every tree and filling the air with abuse and vituperation of their hereditary enemies.

Chapter 11 2010

This action of the Department greatly incensed the savages, and the agent's offer of the annuities without guns and pistols was insolently refused, the Indians sulking back to their camps, the young men giving themselves up to war-dances, and to powwows with "medicine-men," till all hope of control was gone.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

Pocahontas; a medicine-man and priest of the Indians (very well played by Palmer), capable of every treason, stratagem, and crime, and bent upon the torture and death of the English prisoner; — these, with the accidents of the wilderness, the war-dances and cries (which Gumbo had learned to mimic very accurately from the red people at home), and the arrival of the

The Virginians 2006

We had one day a dance of the Illanuns and Gillolos: they might both be called war-dances, but are very different.

The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy Henry Keppel

Indians sulking back to their camps, the young men giving themselves up to war-dances, and to powwows with "medicine-men," till all hope of control was gone.

Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals David Widger

Areoi Societies, which are extended over most of the larger inhabited islands in this part of the Pacific, sometimes hold their great celebrations, like the pow-wows, and war-dances, of our American

The Island Home Richard Archer

The long room was divided into two, the longer portion being the dining-room, and the smaller one the card-room, and on Saturday evenings, when they all sat round smoking their calumets, and singing their songs, and dancing their war-dances, the room was tried to its utmost capacity, and as on the occasion to which I am referring the tribe paid me the compliment of assembling in its numbers, the whole room was required.

The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

As a variety we dressed up in our blankets to resemble Red Indians and indulged in blood-curdling war-dances.

Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons Wesel, Sennelager, Klingelputz, Ruhleben Frederick Arthur Ambrose Talbot

Erman, who visited the Kolushians on the Sitcka, declares to be precisely similar to the war-dances of those Americans.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

Wishing to see their war-dances, I requested the chief Pomare to gratify us with an exhibition, which he consented to do.

The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous